The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 328: Celebrity Birthday Party

In the 1970s and 1980s, few people in China celebrated birthdays. Children would usually have a birthday party when they turned one, but in the 1990s, children in China might have a birthday party at home when they turned ten.

If you celebrate a child's birthday every year, it would be weird. The point is that in this era, no one has ever heard of a child over ten years old celebrating his birthday.

Anyway, those born in the 1970s and 1980s, whose families were well-off, probably only celebrated their birthdays once from childhood to adulthood. Those born in the 1990s, whose families were well-off, might have celebrated their birthdays more than once when they were young.

As shown in skits, people celebrate their birthdays regardless of their age, but this is really rare in reality.

However, in the age of bootlickers, girls may not celebrate their birthdays at home, but when their birthdays come, they will let the bootlickers celebrate for them.

This time Jiang Cheng went to Hong Kong to celebrate Jiang Fei's birthday, which was Jiang Fei's 18th birthday.

In Hong Kong, Jiang Fei is now considered a famous socialite. At the age of 18, her face is still full of collagen and very white and tender.

This socialite refers to a noble woman with fame and status. It is a compliment, but it has been overused in later generations. Anyone can be called a socialite. Using the title of socialite is nothing more than driving up the price of a person.

As a result, when Jiang Cheng, a loser Didi driver who came from later generations, heard the word "socialite", he thought of the word "escort".

Because Shen Li was still in the entertainment industry, Jiang Cheng discovered that she had set up a film and television company, and it seemed that her hobby was not investing in movies at all, but was completely fooling the handsome men and beautiful women in the circle.

He always brought some good-looking female artists to his home, so Jiang Fei and Jiang Yue naturally got to know some people in the circle.

This time it was a birthday, but it was also Jiang Fei's coming-of-age ceremony. Shen Li invited some artists to attend her daughter's coming-of-age ceremony, which was held in the villa. This mountaintop villa was much more upscale than any star-rated hotel.

Jiang Cheng was willing to hold a birthday party for his daughter, not to mention in a villa, even on a cruise ship, inviting some top chefs to come on board. But he was not willing to hang out with some celebrities and famous people.

It’s not that Jiang Cheng dislikes celebrities, it’s mainly because it’s 1992 and many people in China have started to chase stars and like to follow Hong Kong’s entertainment news.

Shen Li now occasionally appears in entertainment magazines as an investor, but Jiang Cheng dares not to. He is still afraid of being seen by his relatives in China.

Being afraid shows that Jiang Cheng values ​​Zhou Lingying and has feelings for her. He loves his children and is afraid that they will have a hard time.

If there were no such scruples, would Jiang Cheng really want to experience the beautiful young female stars in Hong Kong? For example, the golf incident of Guan Meimei, although Jiang Cheng did not see it with his own eyes, rumors about it appeared this year.

This made Jiang Cheng, who was poisoned by porn movies, really itchy and he wanted to see with his own eyes whether it was real or not.

In Hong Kong, 16 or 18 years old is actually considered an adult because according to tradition, 16-year-old girls in Hong Kong can get married with the consent of their guardians.

Eighteen years old is the age of adulthood stipulated by current law, and you have to be eighteen to get a driver's license.

Jiang Cheng had promised to give Jiang Fei a luxury sports car at her birthday party. But he could just show off the sports car in front of others, but if she dared to race, he would break her legs.

When Jiang Cheng arrived in Shenzhen, he first went to visit Lao Zhang. Now he was no longer the driver of the leader of Jiangdonglai Company, so it was not convenient for him to go into the company to look for Zheng Ke.

The key is that his niece also works in the company, as does his niece's junior high school classmates. Even if he can get into the company, Jiang Cheng still has to do it secretly. In addition to his junior high school classmates, one or two of Jiang Juan's college classmates actually work as employees in the company.

Classmates are actually social resources and connections. If you have the ability, it is normal to take care of each other.

So even if Jiang Cheng went to look for Zheng Ke, he would try not to show up in the company. When he arrived in Shenzhen in the afternoon, he went to talk to Lao Zhang. The defense team that was set up back then was the so-called non-staff law enforcement officer. Now "Jiang Donglai" is just a name, because there is no unit in China that has non-staff employees.

However, outside of public institutions, some state-owned enterprises have implemented the contract worker system several years ago. However, even if they are contract workers, they are still formal workers, and at most their jobs are not that secure.

Now the auxiliary defense team is completely supervised and arranged by the law enforcement team. The slush fund from the crackdown on pornography and gambling is stored in the auxiliary defense team. Jiang Donglai no longer splits the money 50-50 with the law enforcement team.

But in order to be legal, Jiangdonglai must also put such a name on the contract. Then the office building and venue of the auxiliary defense team belong to Jiangdonglai, which is now equivalent to renting it to the local law enforcement team, and paying a rent every year.

Jiang Cheng also understood through this auxiliary defense team that if this was linked to the local units, it would be really troublesome. However, for ordinary people, they were still willing to be involved.

It is only 1992 now. If Jiang Cheng does not quit, he can make millions of dollars in Shenzhen by relying on the auxiliary defense team. Millions of dollars are enough for some people to fight for their lives.

In some places, women dare not wear earrings, necklaces, rings, bracelets, etc. on the street.

It's better for people who wear necklaces, after all, their necks are thick, and if the necklace is forcibly pulled off, at most there will be a mark on the neck. But for people who wear earrings, it's normal for the ear corners to bleed when they are pulled off.

Fortunately, people's wages are not very high now, and motorcycles are expensive and ordinary people can't afford them. In a few years, they may become speeding gangs.

Nowadays, people often commit crimes together. One person who is more agile is responsible for robbing, and when he runs away, you will see several people chasing him. Don't think that those who are chasing you are helping you catch the robber. If you really run fast and find that you can catch up with the robber, those who are chasing you may lean on you.

I chatted with Lao Zhang for a while, and listened to him complaining that there were too many floating population in Shenzhen. ID cards were still not fully popularized, and there were too many people with no ID cards, no identity cards, and no identity cards.

The auxiliary defense team is not a formal law enforcement team, and if they are injured or something like that, they will not receive the pension subsidy provided by the establishment. Therefore, the auxiliary defense team has really only been responsible for auxiliary work in recent years, such as patrolling, questioning, recording, and squatting in some places.

If we really want to take action, we need real law enforcement personnel to take action.

Although Lao Zhang complained a lot in Jiangcheng, it can be seen that he lived a fulfilling life. Even though he was over 50 and would retire in a few years, he was still very motivated.

This leader is used to holding meetings and assigning tasks, which sometimes become a kind of enjoyment of power. In these years, it is impossible to say that Lao Zhang has not worked for anyone. But he has adhered to the bottom line and has not been corrupted by sugar-coated bullets.

However, Zhang Jin was able to stick to the bottom line for so many years because of Jiang Cheng. A few years ago, he used his connections to help his children contract a medium-sized fishing boat. All the fish and shrimp caught were directly supplied to Jiang Donglai.

In the absence of sales difficulties, a fishing boat was just a starting point, and soon a fishing company was formed. Now the annual income is not low, and naturally it has put an end to Lao Zhang's corruption for a little profit.

This is just like what is shown in the TV series "The Interests of the People", where they all start by helping others with small things. And sometimes some things are not considered illegal, like contracting a fishing boat, at least he did not use his status to let others contract it to his children at a low price.

I just said hello, and they revealed something. The children of the Zhang family contracted it at a price slightly higher than others.

At least under the same contracting circumstances, there was no loss to the country.

Even if someone reports this behavior, no one will say anything.

Jiang Cheng came out of Lao Zhang's office and went to Zheng Ke's residence. Now she no longer lives in the house converted from the activity room. She bought a bungalow, mainly for the land under the house, and then demolished it to build a building.

In this era, people actually don’t like to live in hospital rooms or anything like that, they all prefer to live in buildings.

(End of this chapter)